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Owner, blogger Geektout.com

GeekTout is a blog dedicated to all of the things that you geek out on. Delivering your daily dose of news, tips, humor, music and gear with sardonic wit and a definitive point of view. Everyone's a geek. What kind are you?

Media Advertising Must Adapt to Survive in 2009

Television and online advertising budgets will be down in 2009. What can advertisers, broadcasters and agencies do to weather the storm? Read

By: Kevin Watson | 02/12/2008 | Multimedia

How to Properly Attribute a Creative Commons Licensed Photo

In my last article, I described the power of Creative Commons (CC) licensing and how to use it to your advantage to find high quality pictures to make your blog or website more compelling. In order to take advantage of the vast collection of freely distributable CC content you can find on sites like Flickr, however, you need to attribute that content back to the author, and describe the license that the author has granted for that piece of content. According to CreativeCommons. Read

By: Kevin Watson | 01/11/2008 | Blogging

Use Creative Commons Licensed Photos to Spruce Up Your Website - for Free

For those of you who maintain your own blog or website, you've probably discovered that a great way to jazz up your posts is to bedazzle them with a stock photo here and there. Pictures are attention-grabbers (nobody likes to read). Stock photos, because of the royalties owed to the photographers, cost money, and that can add up if you're constantly posting. Wouldn't it be great if you could just reuse pictures you find on the internet without paying royalties? Now, before you go crazy and st Read

By: Kevin Watson | 01/11/2008 | Blogging